Esta no es la definición de arte comunitario finàl mas bien un punto para empezar a discutir sus diversos significados. Es una geneología. Por favor siéntanse libres de hacer comentarios sobre esta discusión!
"En el corazón de esta visión social, es una creencia en la expresión creativa y cultural como medio profundo de influencia y transformación social durable...si la mayoría de la gente no cree en la posibilidad y la justicia de sus/nuestras causas comunes, nada auténtico o a al fin y al cabo será cambiado. Aquí es cuando arte, artistas y educadores artistas juegan un rol esencial… Arte comunitario es por su naturaleza dialéctico. Es una expresión de ambos, individuos e identidad de grupo… Envés de ser visto como un genio individual aislado, el artista (o artistas) sirven como catalizadores culturales, una parte integral de un largo proceso de intervención social y transformación". (Shwarzman y deNobriga, "Community-based Art for Social Change", traducción).
¿Cuáles son las historias del término (arte comunitario)? ¿Cómo es interpretado de forma diferente en Inglaterra (donde ha tomado una connotación negativa) que está en cualquier parte, por ejemplo? ¿Cuál es la relación entre arte comunitario y financiamiento? ¿Cómo se diferencia el arte comunitario de la resistencia cultural?
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This is not a final definition of Community Arts but a starting point to discuss its different meanings. It is a genealogy of sorts. Please feed off of this discussion with your own thoughts as comments!
"At the heart of this social vision is a belief in cultural and creative expression as a means to affecting deep and lasting social change…(i)f the majority of the people do not believe in the possibility and the rightness of their/our common cause, nothing authentic or long-lasting will be changed. This is where art, artists and artist educators play an essential role…Community art is by its nature dialectical. It is an expression of both individual and group identity… Instead of being viewed as an isolated individual genius, the artist (or artists) serves as a cultural catalyst, an integral part of a larger process of social intervention and transformation." (Shwarzman and deNobriga, "Community-based Art for Social Change")
What are the histories of this term? How is this interpreted differently in England (where it has taken on a negative connotation) than it is elsewhere, for example? What is the relationship between Community Arts and funding? How are Community Arts different from Cultural Resistance?
July 12, 2007 - 16:22
I've found it really hard to describe community arts in my own writing. It's interesting because I feel like when you're in the work, when you're doing it, you can just feel and experience the immediate benefits of it. It's really hard to step back and look at yourself and your practice to understand how it works, what defines it, and describe it to other people in a way that is convincing and clear.
I feel like the 4 C model works for me - commitment, creative artistic practice, collaboration, and critical social analysis. Yet at the same time community arts projects meet this model in varying degrees. Some aren't critical of overarching power structures, and their goal is merely to engage a community in art production. Others may have a presumptuous attitude about their work, like they are "saving" the community. There are always different levels of collaboration, and commitment, but it seems like creative artistic practice is always a constant when it comes to any art making activity.
I remember in México that I learned that this isn't a term that is commonly used. I remember when I used to try and describe my work to other Mexicans I would get questioning looks. What the hell is Arte Comunitario? Is that a career? Can you study that? I think the same thing happens in Canada a lot too, but maybe there is a different word for it, or maybe we need to make up something new that fits across cultures. I found Adams & Goldbard's book on Community Cultural Development very interesting, as they reject the term Community Arts.
Yet this is a term that has gained popularity around Canadian funding circles, as now all levels of arts funding, from metropolitan to national, fund community arts programs. Community Arts is not going anywhere as a term to describe the types of community-based collective art programs the VIVA! Project envelops, but maybe we should explore a bit more how other terms could be used to describe our practices.
elle.
December 20, 2006 - 18:37
estoy deacuerdo con las formas de entender esto...otra herramienta mas
December 20, 2006 - 18:02
me entusiasma encontrar que ya tenemos unamanera de intercambiar pareceres y conoceres de los temas e intereses comunes.